Where does “käpälämäki” come from?

käpälämäki (Finnish) comes from Finnish Mäki, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

käpälämäki (Finnish): An imaginary place where one is said to go when one scrams, chiefly used in illative singular

Definitions

  1. An imaginary place where one is said to go when one scrams, chiefly used in illative singular

Ancestry of “käpälämäki”, step by step

käpälämäki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Mäki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishMäkiAny of a number of small places in Finland
2Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
3Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
4Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
5Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

via Finnish käpälä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkäpäläpaw
2Proto-Finno-Ugric*käpälä—
Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish Mäki →
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